Hi Barbara -- Thanks so much for your contribution to the list. GILLESPIE is extremely talented. I am always amazed that sculpting can produce such fine, emotional works. One of the most powerful famine memorials in Ireland is is that of a bronze "famine ship" by the roadside in Murrisk, Co. Mayo at the foot of Croagh Patrick (near Westport) with silent skeletons swirling about the ship's masts. I also greatly admire Ms. Jackie McKENNA of Leitrim & Dublin whose work includes a moving portrayal of a distraught female famine victim. Ms. McKENNA has a piece entitled "Cloths of Heaven" at Drumcliffe, Sligo, (where the poet William Butler YEATS is buried, a member of his family having been a rector of the church there) in honor of his poem by the same title. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [IGW] Rowan Gillespie's Famine Sculptures You wrote: ...> As you may recall, Ireland Park Foundation is creating a memorial park at the foot of Bathurst > Street to commemorate the Irish immigrants who > arrived in Toronto in 1847. The park will feature > five famine sculptures along with a limestone wall > and will be dedicated to those who lost their > lives at the end of the journey and to those who > survived and contributed to the development of the > City of Toronto. <snip> > >